Fake gunman at Fort Belvoir
Someone just sent this to me on Facebook; apparently the folks at Fort Belvoir, VA aren’t accustomed to seeing soldiers with guns;
Fort Belvoir Police responded to a report of a possible gunman at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital just before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The individual was quickly detained without incident. Officials indicate the individual was carrying a training aid and not an actual weapon. Fort Belvoir initiated gate closures in accordance with established procedures to ensure the continued safety of the entire Belvoir community. The gates were restored to normal operations once the issue was resolved safely. Response and control of the situation were accomplished so swiftly Belvoir officials had no time to issue the announcement of gate closure before they were reopened.
This isn’t to criticize anyone, it’s good that everyone was paying attention and reacted quickly.
Category: Military issues
Belvoir hasn’t sen real guns since right after 9/11, there were machine gun positions, with interlocking fields of fire and M240B’s at every gate almost immediately after the attacks. Guess its been a while… Still, great response though!!
Although FT Belvoir houses a command or two, it is primarily a housing post for MDW.
I wok with the “shooter” it was a training aid for physical therapy. Haha
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I am the alleged “shooter” and it was a dummy stock with no barrel, no metal components, just a simple plastic Springfield 1903 stock the us army drill team uses to train. A physical therapy appointment gone terribly wrong.
Everyone comes to TAH, even phony gunmen. I’m glad I don’t have physical therapy at Belvoir.
This reminds me of the warning signs at CU Boulder during a marching band competition that read “Fake weapons in use”. Those “fake” weapons were the white “rifles” that color guard uses, like this:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=An.Kw0oKoi5h3gZ.YA2_yVdG2vAI?p=color+guard+rifles&fr=my-myy-s&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
I’m guessing that so few students in Boulder had seen real weapons that they might have panicked seeing a color guard rifle, thinking it was the real thing.
This is embaressing for an Army base. FFS, my high school JROTC drill and rifle team could carry old Springfield rifles and airguns across campus without people freaking out. I’m guessing this is one of ‘those’ bases that does everything weapons related (to include zero and qual) in a EST.
When I worked at WSMR, only guns were held by civilian gate guards unless a NG unit was on maneuvers near our site. It didn’t take a PhD in rocket science to notice that the holed in the usual warnings about deadly force authorized were facing OUT. Seems it gets a bit boring at night…